WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Sentenced to 50 Weeks in UK Jail

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been sentenced to 50
weeks—for almost a year—in prison by a London court for breaching
his bail conditions in 2012 and taking refuge in the Ecuadorian
embassy for nearly 7 years.The 47-year-old by London's
Metropolitan Police Service after the Ecuadorian government
suddenly .Within hours of
his arrest, Assange was convicted at Westminster Magistrates'
Court of skipping bail in June 2012 after an extradition order to
Sweden over claims of sexual assault and rape allegations made by
two women.

Although Sweden dropped its preliminary investigation into the
rape accusation against Julian Assange in 2017, Assange chose not
to leave the due to fears of
extradition to the United States.In the Southwark Crown Court
Judge Deborah Taylor gave Assange a
sentence close to the maximum of a year in custody, saying it was
hard to "envisage a more serious example of this offense."Taylor
said Assange's seven years in the London’s Ecuadorian embassy had
cost 16 million pounds (nearly AUD 29 million) of British
taxpayers money, adding that he sought asylum as a "deliberate
attempt to delay justice."In a letter read out in the court by
his lawyer, Assange said he had found himself "struggling with
terrifying circumstances" for which neither he nor those from
whom he "sought advice could work out any remedy."

"I apologize unreservedly to those who consider that I have
disrespected them by the way I have pursued my case. This is
not what I wanted or intended," Assange added.

Assange is currently facing extradition to the United States for
leaking thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents
through his popular that
embarrassed the U.S. governments across the world.U.S.
authorities have not officially confirmed the charges against
Assange until his arrest last month when for the first time, U.S.
Department of Justice against the Australian
hacker for his alleged role in "one of the largest compromises of
classified information in the history of the United States."The
DoJ, who is now seeking his extradition to the United States,
accused Assange of trying to help Chelsea Manning, a former
intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army, crack a password to
Pentagon computers.Assange has been charged with conspiracy to
commit computer intrusion, and if convicted, could face a
five-year prison term in the U.S.

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